Bullet
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491_9780646989983
Set in the Kimberley in the 1980s and 90s, the central character being a Dog of indeterminate breed that we found up in the remote Isdell river.My wife and I never really wanted a Dog at the time when Bullet came into our lives. He was in such poor condition and close to death, I had decided to put him out of his misery with a bullet. He made a miraculous recovery and attached himself to our family much like a bush Tick to a scrub Bulls Genitals. The Dog was Irascible, so we named him Bullet to remind him from time to time that when he was extremely naughty, we still had a bullet with his name on itThis book is as much about the Kimberley, and the Characters we lived, worked, and came in contact with during our 17 years of living on Koolan Island, as a Tale about the dog himself. I wrote it from memory many years after leaving Koolan. Its written in the vernacular of that time and place, when Political Correctness was an unheard-of concept, and Men and women alike liberally used four letter words to stress a point in conversation.Bullet was a tough little Bush Dog with a voracious appetite for adventure or misadventure. Often placing us in extreme danger, and at other times putting us close to running afoul of the Law. Such as the time he caused a multiple car collision in Perth. Another time when he single handedly Killed a Large Scrub Bull that attacked us in the wild; attacking and causing the demise of a Tiger Shark in a shallow Lagoon at Wood Islands that had decided we would be its next meal, and the time he jumped on and latched himself to a very large Crocodile that lay in ambush of us on a dark night near the Mouth of the Prince Regent.I also shared some Poignant moments with him, like when we sat together at the precipitous edge of the Summit of Mount Trafalgar sipping on a can of beer and gazing in awe of Gods creation, and other times of sheer terror when I began to wonder what Bullet and I had done to annoy the big bloke upstairs. And the time
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